Advertising means.



No.866,430. PATENTED SEPT. 17,1907.

G. HARRINGTON & H. PUSEY'.

ADVERTISING MEANS.

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GEORGE OARRINGTON AND HUGH PUSEY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

ADVERTISING MEANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907.

Application filed July 1,1907. Serial No. 381,652.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE OARRINGTON and HUGH PUsEY, citizens oi theUnited States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco andState of Oalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements inAdvertising Means, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to advertising and vending means. Its object is toprovide a novel and attractive device for promoting the introduction andsale of various vendible articles such as cigars, candy, and otherthings.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a frontview of the device. view of a ball.

A represents a rotatable member here shown in the form of a cylinder;but it is to be understood that it may Fig. 2 is a be of any otherdesired shape, as oblong, square, prismoidal or globular. It may be ofany desired size, and may be made of any suitable material.

It is conveniently mounted for rotation in any appropriate manner and onany suitable form of support, as the portable stand 2.

The periphery of the cylinder is provided with a plurality of recessesor pockets 3, each adapted to contain something which will represent anorder for a specified quantity of a particular class of goods, as forexample, cigars. This order maybe a small ball as 4 fitting loose in apocket 3 and suitably inscribed to represent the quantity of goods to bedelivered to the holder on presentation. Manifestly this order mediummay take a variety of forms, and we do not limit ourselves to a ball orto any particular form of order, or substance from which it may be made.

The surface of the cylinder A is covered by a sheet of paper 5, whichacts as a closure and seal for the pockets and retains the order devices4 in place until the paper over a pocket has been broken.

All the pockets are designed to receive each an order medium as 4 andnone of these order media 4 are to be visible to the purchaser until hehas broken the seal to one or more pockets.

The position of the several pockets beneath the paper is indicated inany appropriate manner as by the dots 6.

Any suitable means may be employed to remove an order 4 from itspockets, as for example the tweezers 7. While ordinarily the balls willroll out of their pockets by gravity when the seals are broken and thecylinder rotated to invert the opened pockets, still if a ball did stickin its pocket it can easily be dug out with the tweezers. If slips ofpaper are used as orders instead of balls 4, they can be pulled out bythe tweezers.

By having the dots 6 of contrasting color with the body of the coversheet 5, a bewildering and interesting effect is produced when thedevice A is rapidly rotated. In fact one of the great advantages of thisdevice and one of its particular claims to novelty and utility as anadvertising medium, resides in making the part A rotatable. A customerwill always give the thing a turn or two before he breaks the seal of apocket; the motion of the thing interests or amuses him and he wants tosee what is on the back. This action of turning the part A attractsothers who see the device who might not otherwise observe it, for it iswell known that amoving object more quickly affects the sense of sightthan a stationary object.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In an advertising means, the combination of a mernber mounted forrotation and having pockets, an order device in each pocket, and afriable seal for the pockets.

2, In an advertising means, the combination of a member mounted forrotation and having pockets, a removable order device in each pocket,and a dotted sheet of paper on the periphery of said rotatable memberforminga seal and closure for the several pockets.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GEORGE CARRINGTON. HUGH PUSEY.

Witnesses:

I'IARRY J. LASK, W. F. Boswnnn.

